Publications
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Newsletters: a weekly summary of news about Bitcoin and LN development.
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Blog posts: Occasional updates and reference material from the Optech team.
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Podcast Episodes: Audio discussions of our newsletters.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #381
This week’s newsletter looks at an analysis of how block propagation times may affect miner revenue and describes a new approach for resolving protocols where multiple parties share funds. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software and summarizing recent merges to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #380 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by TheCharlatan to discuss Newsletter #380.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #380
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections with announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #379 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner, PortlandHODL, Tadge Dryja, and Antoine Poinsot to discuss Newsletter #379.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #379
This week’s newsletter shares an analysis comparing the historical performance of the OpenSSL and libsecp256k1 libraries. Also included are our regular sections with descriptions of discussions about changing consensus, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and summaries of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #378 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #378.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #378
This week’s newsletter announces four vulnerabilities affecting older versions of the Bitcoin Core full node. Also included are our regular sections summarizing popular questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #377 Recap Podcast
Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Mike Schmidt are joined by Abubakar Sadiq Ismail and Carla Kirk-Cohen to discuss Newsletter #377.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #377
This week’s newsletter summarizes an idea to use cluster mempool to detect block template feerate increases and shares an update on channel jamming mitigation simulation results. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #376 Recap Podcast
Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Mike Schmidt are joined by Francesco Madonna and supertestnet to discuss Newsletter #376.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #376
This week’s newsletter shares an update on the proposal for nodes to share their current block template and summarizes a paper outlining a covenant-less vault construction. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #375 Recap Podcast
Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sindura Saraswathi, ZmnSCPxj, and Eugene Siegel to discuss Newsletter #375.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #375
This week’s newsletter describes research into tradeoffs between usability and security in threshold signatures, summarizes an approach to convert nested threshold signatures into a single-layer signing group, and examines the extent to which data could be embedded in the UTXO set under a restrictive set of rules. Also included are our regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #374 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gustavo Flores Echaiz to discuss Newsletter #374.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #374
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new release and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #373 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse, Daniela Brozzoni, and Gustavo Flores Echaiz to discuss Newsletter #373.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #373
This week’s newsletter summarizes a vulnerability affecting old versions of Eclair and summarizes research into full node feerate settings. Also included are our regular sections summarizing popular questions and answers on the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #372 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj and Constantine Doumanidis to discuss Newsletter #372.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #372
This week’s newsletter summarizes a proposal to enhance LN redundant overpayments and links to a discussion about potential partitioning attacks against full nodes. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #371 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick and Bastien Teinturier to discuss Newsletter #371.
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